[TRAVELS]. PRÉVOST d'EXILES (Antoine François). General His - Lot 175

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[TRAVELS]. PRÉVOST d'EXILES (Antoine François). General His - Lot 175
[TRAVELS]. PRÉVOST d'EXILES (Antoine François). General History of Travels, or New collection of all the relations of voyages by sea and by land, which have been published up to now []. In The Haye, Chez Pierre De Hondt, 1747-1758 (16 vols.). Suite de l'Histoire générale des voyages [] pour servir de Supplement a l'édition de Paris. In Amsterdam, With Arkstée et Merkus, 1761 (1 vol.). Continuation of the Histoire générale des voyages []. In Paris, Chez Rozet, 1768, & A Paris, Chez Panckoucke, 1770 (2 vols.). Together 19 volumes in-4° (out of 25), speckled basane, spine ribbed and decorated, morocco title-pieces (period binding). "New edition, revised on the originals of the travelers [] " 580 engraved plates, some after COCHIN, including a portrait of the author in frontispiece. The present copy thus includes, including the frontispiece, 580 plates, some double or folded, of which about 260 maps, plans, views (out of a total which varies according to the collections and can sometimes reach nearly 600). Mottling in volume I; tear at folds, without missing, on the large map in the same volume. "A true encyclopedia of travel [], the indispensable basis of any American library" (Chadenat, 1696, for the Didot edition); Sabin, 65404.
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